My fellow Hydra Publications authors and I are having a Blog Hop amongst ourselves. I’ll have Hydra guests Monday through Friday, and I’ll guest at their blogs Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. My first hopper is Michael L. Turner (no relation, even though Turner is my…

The first civilization to cultivate the cacao tree was the Olmecs, three thousand years ago. The Mayans, who came along centuries later, called the cacao tree simply “tree”, just as “cake” means “chocolate cake” to me. Next, the Toltecs believed their king to be the…